ABSCESS

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does abscess mean? 

• ABSCESS (noun)
  The noun ABSCESS has 1 sense:

1. symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue

  Familiarity information: ABSCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSCESS (noun)

Meaning:

Symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("abscess" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Meronyms (parts of "abscess"):

head (the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates))

purulence; purulency (symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abscess"):

abscessed tooth (an abscess of a common kind in the tissue around a tooth)